The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
PAUL SIMONThe phrasing didn’t work as well.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
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We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
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Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.
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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
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Artie is a singer, and I’m a writer and player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you’re wrong, you’re soppy, sentimental.
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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
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